Eaton has announced new Neo-Ray family LED luminaires that take the next step
in establishing new form factors in lighting
based on the unique characteristics of LED
point sources. You can’t really call the new
products planar because the emission surfaces are in fact curved, although they borrow
the edge-lit, light-guide-based SSL technology
that Eaton calls WaveStream and has used in
many planar products. To complement the
sleek new products, Eaton also has announced
a new suspension scheme called Lux Wire that
uses almost-invisible aircraft cable for pen-dant-style mounting and to deliver low-voltage DC power to the luminaires.

The new Neo-Ray Covera luminaires are
said to have next-generation WaveStream
technology. The design appears to be an arc
of what’s overall a cylindrical shape in terms
of the WaveStream light guide.

Eaton also announced new Neo-Ray Converge luminaires that use a pair of planar
WaveStream light guides located on either
side of the center axis of the linear products.

Both Covera and Converge products are
offered with the new pendant mounting and
power scheme called LuxWire, which uses
steel cables that have a minimalist sleek
look, and leave the drivers mounted in the
ceiling. The steel cables safely deliver DC
power to the fixtures. ◀

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PACKAGED LEDS

Cree royal blue LED delivers
81% wall plug efficiency

Cree has announced the XLamp XP-G3 Royal
Blue LED that the company claims to be the
highest-performing royal blue LED on the
market. Cree said the new LED delivers wall
plug efficiency as high as 81%, although the
conditions for that performance level were
not specified. Cree is specifically targeting horticultural SSL applications with the
new product and also believes that the LED
is a good fit in general for RGB (red, green,
and blue) luminaires in entertainment and